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Opinion

Junior reflects on immigration and shares story of international video conference. Page 3

11 hour time differenceSports

Lacrosse scraped out win against De Smet, fell to CBC last night. Page 6

Lacrosse falters in recent games

Sports

Rugby maintained winning streak in recent games, looks to State. Page 6

Rugby flattens opposition

News

SLUH entrepreneurs proposed business ideas to groups of poten-tial investors at SLU on Wednes-day. Page 2

Students present at MedLaunch

Awards

Seniors received a multitude of awards and honors at Thursday’s assembly. Page 5

Senior recognized at assemblyOpinion

A senior asks for respect instead of generalizations and accusatory language. Page 3

Letter

Index

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Letter

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5 Awards

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8 Around the Hallways

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sluh.org/prepnewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, April 29, 2016Volume LXXX, Issue XXVIII

BY Alex SembrotREPORTER

After many weeks of plan-ning and preparation,

Saint Louis U. High’s annual art show opened last night. The art show displays work created by SLUH students enrolled in art classes such as 2D Design, 3D Design, and

BY Leo K. HeinzEDITOR IN CHIEF

After stealing in the Com-mons’ servery hit criti-

cal mass this week, Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson announced a change in the servery policy Wednesday during under-classmen and upperclassmen lunch periods. Students will now form a line outside the entrance before they may en-ter.

“It’s stupid I have to talk about this,” Kesterson said Wednesday to the juniors and seniors. “I wouldn’t think this would be an issue, but it is.”

Kesterson told students that an additional camera had been added to the east end of the servery in the last several weeks. “You guys have got to start doing things the right way,” he said. He gave a simi-lar speech to the freshman and sophomores during their lunch period.

In an interview Thurs-day, Kesterson said that the change had been made after the additional security cam-era—there is a camera on the west end end of the servery near the cashiers that was installed during the servery’s original construction—was installed.

“That constant moni-toring with a camera has al-lowed us to go back and check things out if we were curious about things or if we saw guys who were acting a little weird. Unfortunately our suspicions were accurate on some of those cases,” said Kesterson

On Thursday, barri-cades were set up outside of the doors to the servery to force a line. Kathy Hylla, who oversees cafeteria operations, said the intent was to slow down and reduce the rush of students in the 61-foot long room. She and Kesterson said a similar process was used outside the Old Cafeteria. (The cafeteria moved from the Old Cafeteria to the Com-mons in the fall of 2012.) The new servery, which is larger

BY Sam Heagney and Con-nor FitzGeraldFEATURES AND NEWS EDITORS

The scripts are in, and the lines have been memo-

rized—well sort of. The Class of 2016’s Senior Follies will run for two shows this week-end, tomorrow and Sunday; it only took a belly brigade and a passively-threatening email from math teacher and Follies director Frank Corley.

Corley’s email, titled “The Demise of Senior Fol-lies?” highlighted the history of SLUH’s great tradition in

BY Galen Bacharier and Jack WinschelCORE STAFF, REPORTER

The spring issue of Sisy-phus, St. Louis U. High’s

literature and art magazine, will be released on May 4 and feature a variety of student stories, poetry, art, and pho-tography.

Since January’s Sisyphus issue, students have been sub-mitting works for review.

While discussing the new spring issue, English teacher and Sisyphus mod-erator Rich Moran called to mind a few of the pieces that struck a note with him, in-cluding senior Duncan Allen’s story about a SLUH class re-union that takes place several years in the future.

“It’s a story about what guys think about and talk about later on,” said Moran. “The main character doesn’t want to talk about the sadness in his life, but he runs into old friends and they talk about the truth in their lives. It’s a great idea for a story.”

Moran described several other literary pieces, includ-ing senior Thomas Nowak’s about a girl haunted by a past friend and Jack Sinay’s non-fiction piece connecting two stories of him and a past generation. Junior Matt Lor-anger’s poem “My, How You Have Poisoned Me” ends the magazine.

Art, as usual, is also a mainstay of the magazine, and there’s a huge spectrum of style included.

“We were working kind of last-minute to get some art, no matter the kind,” said art editor Liam Connolly. “It ended up balancing out in terms of style.”

Connolly also noted the ease with which great pho-tography has come recently, crediting the rise of social media platforms that pro-mote taking pictures.

“In the last few years, people have been getting more into taking their own pictures with stuff like VSCO and Instagram,” said Con-

Ceramics. These works are on display in the main art gallery until Monday, May 12.

Art teachers Sean Pow-ers, Joan Bugnitz, and Sarah Rebholz started planning for the art show the week af-ter spring break. They spent many hours setting up the studio and making sure ev-

erything was ready for the show.

“There is a great atmo-sphere surrounding artwork that is displayed in a gallery as opposed to in the art rooms that are messy and dirty,” said Ceramics teacher Sarah Reb-holz. “There is something really exciting about having

an art show and seeing the art out of the context of the studio. I think that when stu-dents see that, it makes them realize that what they have been working so hard on has finally come to fruition.”

Another goal of the art show is to allow other stu-

Senior Follies and noted that it had been uninterrupted since 1945. In the email, Cor-ley mused “shall the Class of 2016 go down in SLUH his-tory as the class that killed Follies?”

Alas, the scripts found their way to Corley in time. Corley said that in compari-son to previous years, this year started about a week behind. Senior Joe Zoellner alone wrote or co-wrote six total skits in the show, and he didn’t stop there, directing

BY Ethan McIntyreFEATURES EDITOR

St. Louis U. High baseball coach Steve Nicollerat has

built up an impressive tally of 600 wins over the past 37 years, making him the win-ningest coach in SLUH his-tory, but he has also created something much more im-portant—a bond with play-ers, parents, and coaches that often goes unnoticed in the world of sports, yet may be more important than a tally of wins.

Nicollerat came to SLUH in March of 1979, after

coaching at Hillsboro for a year. SLUH had a teaching and coaching job available, and he fit the bill. Nearly 40 years later, Nicollerat has be-come an exemplary coach and a role model for hun-dreds of students who have gone through his programs.

The 600th win itself came last Thursday night in a walk-off win against Bishop DuBourg. After the game, the team presented Nicolle-

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Sisyphus to release 76-page spring issue Tuesday

Cafeteria thefts prompt change in line procedure

Seniors Sam Tettamble and Sam Perry in an SSN skit.photo | Brendan Voigt

Students and teachers at the art show Thursday night. It runs through mid-May during school hours. photo | Brendan Voigt

Art show last night highlights student creativity

71st Senior Follies runs Saturday and Sunday

Nicollerat: 600 wins and off-field successes

Varsity baseball coach Steve Nicollerat.artwork | Joe Fentress

Prep News NEWS April 29, 20162

BY Joseph HartungREPORTER

Last week Pax Christi host-ed guest speaker Kristen

Trudo, who talked about her experience as a woman of color and emphasized the im-portance of discussing racial issues openly, honestly, and often.

“I found out about (Tru-do) a few months ago,” said Pax Christi moderator and theology teacher Dan Finu-cane. “She participated in the Ignatian Solidarity Network Social Justice Series, which sent out a new reflection each day, and she wrote one that was really moving.”

Trudo had a relatively privileged upbringing: liv-ing in an upper-middle class suburb of Los Angeles and attending a Jesuit high school and university. She talked about how she had grown ac-customed to white spaces, as she designates them in her blog post, “A Letter to My White Ignatian Family.”

However, Trudo ex-plained that ever since she had become a part of the Je-suit Volunteer Corps here in St. Louis, she has developed in her awareness both of her identity as a person of color and of how she is treated dif-ferently by her white counter-parts.

Trudo’s talk morphed into an open discussion in which she posed a series of tough questions about why people were there, why they were interested in talking about issues of race, and how we as a society can talk about issues of race. She emphasized the point that even though discussing race can be un-comfortable, it is still impor-tant in order to break that the pattern of ignorance and awk-wardness when it comes to deciding what is okay to say.

“What she had to say was really challenging, but I thought it was important for members of our community to hear,” said Finucane. “It re-ally fostered conversation.”

BY Sam Chechik and Jack SchweizerCORE STAFF, STAFF

St. Louis U. High sent seven students to attend a Cath-

olic Teach-In on Immigration at the Cardinal Rigali Cen-ter in Shrewsbury yesterday, where they listened to undoc-umented immigrants tell of their journeys to the United States.

Campus ministers Dan Finucane and Pepe Ruiz, S.J., brought juniors Alex Sosa, Salvatore Vitellaro, and Sam Chechik and sophomores James Pollard, Joe Lux, Pierce Hastings, and Jack Schweizer to the Cardinal Rigali Center. There, the SLUH students met with students from 20 other schools to discuss immigra-tion, specifically in the United

States along the U.S.-Mexican border.

“The idea, of course, was to expose the students to an encounter that they wouldn’t ordinarily have the opportu-nity to experience, and I think it ultimately goes back to what Pope Francis has called for, a culture of encounter. That we should be in touch with peo-ple who are on the margins in some way,” said Finucane.

The students listened as Mary Baudouin, the Jesuit Central Southern Province Assistant for Social Minis-tries, discussed immigration, highlighting that Congress has barred legislation for comprehensive immigration reform for the past few years and that the current immigra-tion system is “outdated and

broken.” Using economic statis-

tics, Baudouin showed there are 11.3 million undocument-ed immigrants in the United States, and she cited gang vio-lence as the primary reason for immigrants coming to the United States.

“You can talk about teachings, you can listen to stories, but ultimately, it’s about the people, human per-sons,” said Finucane. “I think we throw around language about the dignity of the hu-man person, but it’s not until you see the extremes. There’s a need to speak out about dig-nity in a way that’s not just a passing comment—that’s kind of thoughtless—but we have a chance to really think through it.”

One female immigrant who traveled from Honduras spoke about her general expe-rience, explaining the risks of staying home when it comes to criminal gangs and the ar-duous journey of immigrating to the United States.

Eleven migrants came to the Center to discuss their stories with tables of high school students, giving them a perspective of immigration they weren’t prepared for. The migrants came from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Most of them fled to escape violence, drugs, gangs, and corrupt school systems. Many had families in the United States that they at-tempted to reach or left their families to try and go it alone. Along the way, one told of be-ing kidnapped, and another watched a close friend be executed. Most were teenag-ers, only living in the United States for less than two years.

“I thought they (the con-versations) went great,” said Finucane. “People were at-tentive and seemed to be re-ally present to the situation. I think it’s important for the students individually to have an encounter like this, to learn more and to have your knowl-edge of immigration expand from a personal encounter.”

“It really awakened me to the privilege that I have as a white male in America, going to SLUH in general; it awakened me to the privileges I have here,” Pollard said. “It just really gave me a sense to take advantage of all the op-portunities I have here, which is another reason why I went

Students immerse themselves in immigration teach-in

Volunteer speaks to Pax Christi

to this—because I think it’s important to do that.”

Ruiz ended the Teach-In with a closing prayer, in both Spanish and English, on strangers and Christ.

Finucane had to plan months in advance for this first-of-a-kind Teach-In. To encourage students to par-ticipate in this social justice opportunity, Finucane sent an email out in January to students advertising this Im-migration Teach-In, and after he sent out a Google Form in February, he got more re-sponses than the five slots allotted. Although he was originally allowed to take only five kids, that ruling changed based on other schools drop-ping out from the event.

Finucane coordinated with social justice teachers and advisors from other St. Louis high schools to bring in the eleven immigrants, and the teachers modeled this inaugural St. Louis Teach-In after one that the Central Southern Province had been doing in New Orleans for the past few years.

This past Tuesday, Finu-cane held an event—co-led by Sosa—showing a documen-tary called Which Way Home, which details the journey of unaccompanied teenagers traveling to the United States from unstable countries like Guatemala, Honduras, Mexi-co, and and El Salvador due to gang violence.

Finucane is planning to gather the students who went to the Teach-In for a discus-sion about future action on immigration at SLUH.

BY Nolen DoorackNEWS EDITOR

A group of upperclassmen got a chance to showcase

their entrepreneurial work Wednesday night at the Saint Louis University MedLaunch Demo Day.

Two separate groups of Saint Louis U. High students participated in the event, showcasing their products: Pedecare and Skydration Sys-tems. Demo Day, which was held downtown at SLU’s law school, drew potential inves-tors, professors, and scientists to see a handful of startups.

MedLaunch is a non-profit biomedical and entre-preneurship incubator that works with SLU. According to MedLaunch’s website, its mis-sion is to “improve the stan-dard of healthcare through the engineering and design of creative solutions while also fostering a community of en-trepreneurship and collabora-tion at Saint Louis University.” MedLaunch put on Demo Day as an opportunity for the teams to showcase their prod-ucts.

At Demo Day, seniors Sean Kelso and Jack Keady presented their team’s prod-uct, Pedecare. Pedecare is a foot ulcer detection device for diabetes patients. Pedecare re-sembles a scale and requires patients to step onto it. Sen-sors measure the tempera-tures of 21 different points of the foot and processes that data through an algorithm.

“The information is then sent to the patient and the physician so they can have better knowledge of their health,” said Kelso.

At Wednesday night’s event, their working proto-type attracted a lot of atten-tion.

The other group of SLUH students consisted of senior Jimmy Reddy and juniors An-drew Pluff, Joseph Reznikov, Zach Hennes, Robby Esswein, and Daniel Wagner, who pre-sented a product that collects rainwater from the roofs of families who might not have easy access to clean water. Many of those students are affiliated with Ignatian Busi-ness Leaders. The Skydration group has also attracted the attention of investors.

Kelso and Keady became involved with MedLaunch af-ter Andy Hayden presented to the Medical Careers Club back in September. They joined a six-person team of SLU undergraduate students.

“I got into it initially to see if I’d like it—the entrepre-neurial and medical aspect of it,” said Kelso.

Kelso and Keady have spent a lot of their time re-searching diabetes, market-ing the product, and learning from any competitors. The next step is to do clinical beta testing to collect more data and refine the Pedecare.

Student startups

gain attention at MedLaunch

photo | Mr. Dan Finucane

Students at the teach-in Thursday. photo | Sam Chechik

Kristen Trudo at Pax Christi’s meeting.

Prep News Volume 80, Issue 28

Editor in ChiefLeo Heinz

News EditorsNolen DoorackConnor FitzGerald

Sports EditorTim Nile

Features EditorsSam HeagneyEthan McIntyre

Core StaffGalen BacharierSam ChechikCade DernlanPatrick EnderleJohn Michael FitzgeraldNick MessinaCharlie MuethAndrew PluffJoseph ReznikovJack Sinay

StaffBilly BalossiMatthew BookJack CaseyLiam ConnollyWill FarrollMatt GodarSam Goedeker

Andrew ModderJack Schweizer

Staff ArtistsJoe FentressIan Mulvihill

Staff PhotographerBrendan Voigt

ReportersNick GimaCraig GrzechowiakJoseph HartungJake HennesJake LepakLancer LiSam RudderAlex SembrotJake SwyersJack WatersJack Winschel

Contributing ArtistsJack Bailey

Contributing PhotographersMr. Dan FinucaneMr. Scott GilbertGaurav Nigam

ModeratorMr. Steve Missey

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Prep NewsOPINIONApril 29, 2016 3

To the editor:Two weeks ago was jus-

tice week at SLUH and a lot of people in our community voiced their opinions and concerns about racism, sex-ism, and sexual orientation. At the senior prayer service that week, I was able to wit-ness three people describe how they feel they are dis-criminated against because they are a different race, sexu-al orientation, or gender than the majority. While I fully respect those who spoke and believe that those who have a same-sex attraction, who are a different race, and who are a different gender should be treated with respect, I do believe that some (not all) of them voiced their opinions in a way that made me feel un-comfortable.

It felt to me like a lot of what I heard last week was objections to fragments of conversations that are over-heard in our hallways. I don’t know what is done, if any-thing, about these conversa-tions when they are heard, but what I do know is that these are later brought up in front of the entire class, like in prayer service, and we are lectured as if we are all guilty of the objec-tionable conversation.

In these lectures, I tend to get very uncomfortable be-cause I feel like I am being ac-cused of being a racist, a sex-ist, and a homophobe. I don’t like that at all because I do a

lot to show respect to all peo-ple especially those at SLUH.

I also feel that I am not alone. It seemed that a lot of my other classmates came out of that prayer service with the same feelings. They felt like they were being lectured about something that they didn’t do. They came out of the service feeling annoyed, uncomfortable, or just angry. I don’t think that it is right to generalize a group of people and then make accusations. I don’t know if the speakers were trying to do that, but that sure is how it felt. Now a message to those who are in our community who use the offensive language: that isn’t right either and you need to just stop.

I believe respect is what we need to stress. When we begin to generalize and point fingers in the other direction that is when prolems arise. If we begin to just try to instill respect by speaking to the val-ue of it, I believe that the SLUH community will become a bet-ter place. Respect is a two way street and we all have our own burdens to bear. Pointing fin-gers will get nothing done, but teaching and valuing respect will. I hope that those reading this article can see where I am coming from and anyone who wants to talk about the issue further can feel free to reach out to me.

Tim Sansone, ’16

Letter: Respecting or calling out? BY Lancer Li

On April 21, I organized an online video conference

on Shakespeare literature be-tween students from Nanjing Blind School and SLUH. This year commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, so Shakespear-ean literature was the theme for the conference. Thanks to passionate participation and generous help from Sam Chechik, Galen Bacharier, Ian Mulvihill and Joe Fentress, the conference was a success, and I gladly recognize it as a valu-able extension of the Bilingual Reading community service. I. The Idea

The idea for an online video conference came unex-pectedly.

As I was dozing off on the plane back to China, thinking about extending my connec-tion with the Nanjing Blind School beyond the communi-ty service Bilingual Reading, I was expecting some senior-project-style tutoring for the blind kids during the summer break. But when I was actu-ally there walking around the campus, looking at the blind children, Mr. Xiao, the direc-tor of Youth League Commit-tee, changed my mentality completely.

“We’ve got support from a lot of people,” he said. “And we are truly grateful for their time and energy. But there is just one giant problem out there, making it very hard for us to cooperate.”

I jotted down a couple words as I listened attentively.

“They want to do service based on their perception of our need, and of what com-munity service means. All the different schools come and say that they have some plans, and

Journal: An International Shakespeare Chat

From left: Juniors Galen Bacharier, Sam Chechik, Ian Mulvihill, and Lancer Li Skyping with Nanjing students.

most of them are just not that helpful. They are doing ser-vice, not to truly help or even listen to what blind children really need, but rather to fulfill their own desire.”

That is when I asked the question: what do they really need?

“Connection, interna-tional connection. They want to see and hear the world.”

“I study in America, and we can make this happen.”

That is when the idea of an online video conference surfaced.

II. The ProcessOrganizing an interna-

tional online video conference involving students from both China and America, while considering the eleven-hour time difference and problem of technology, is absolutely no easy task. Thankfully, I have the unwavering support of my friend Sam Chechik, with whom I deliberated the details of the conference over and over, Galen Bacharier and Ian Mulvihill, who joined the conference right before it started and participated with

outstanding patience and lov-ing encouragement.

Despite my procrastina-tory nature, the conference went well, although it had a rough start; the internet con-nection was not stable enough support the transmission of image or the voice. I sweated over the frustrating video sig-nals, hoping that this first in-ternational connection would not fail.

Fortunately, a change of video conference application saved the day. All the smiles and laughter from the four blind Chinese students be-came clear. Everything went perfectly from that moment; we introduced ourselves, talk-ed about our hobbies, school activities and favorite works of Shakespeare, and eventually, read and listened to poems.

III. The Understand-ings

After Sam Chechik fin-ished Shakespeare Sonnet 15, one blind girl in China recited one of her own poems.

That is when time froze.I had no prior knowledge

of this poem, so no immedi-

ate translation was available, and that means I was the only person in the SLUH art room who could understand what she was chanting. It is about hope, light, and seeing the world again, much like a po-etic version of Three Days to See. She spoke with such long-ing and hope that lights shone through her blind eyes. It was a moment when thousands of emotions and impulses all flooded my heart. It was both the most heartbreaking and the most cheerful.

I sat there, amazed. So were the other three SLUH boys. They can understand her, surely.

“One of the best things I realized is that, despite the differences in our culture, social setting and language, we can still enjoy one of the most brilliant arts, sit down and talk about it. That is just the most amazing thing about literature,” Galen encouraged the blind students at the very end of the conference, “Please, do not stop your love for liter-ature. This is truly beautiful.”

photo | Nolen Doorack

Eatery theft prompts security increase

Beefed-up organization outside the servery. photo | Leo Heinz

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Signs outside of the Commons servery Thursday morning.

Pn Puzzle ACROSS1 Russian spy group2 No more parties in Boston 3 ___ vs. GER was the match up in the 1982 World Cup4 Replaced by the boat motor 5 Made up of values, attitudes, customs, and beliefs 6 You’re more likely to die in one of these than in a terrorist attack 7 Pirates pastime 8 Last name of Hook’s foe 9 ___ dawg 10 Jimi Hendrix kisses this 11 A March Madness Channel

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photo | Leo Heinz

Annual art show runs for next two weeks

Note: Across numbers are located in top left of squares, and down numbers are located in the top right of squares.

Crossword | Jack Casey

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Oil pastels in the art gallery during last night’s art show. photo | Brendan Voigt

than the food line at the Old Cafeteria, was a “free for all” and allowed a “massive influx of people,” said Kesterson.

“We just need to slow the process down and that will allow us to monitor the process a little better,” he said.

“(The stealing) has been going on for a long time,” Hylla said. “ It’s upsetting.”

The process for the rest of the year and foreseeably for next year will involve limiting the number of students in the servery at a given time by requiring students to line up be-fore entering. That process will allow faculty proctors to more easily see students and prevent stealing, as will the cameras, Kesterson and Hylla said.

dents to see what their peers and friends have been work-ing so hard on.

“The art show allows students to get excited them-selves, and hopefully it will encourage someone who would otherwise feel uncom-fortable taking an art class to consider taking one that they thought they couldn’t do or otherwise would stay clear of,” said Rebholz.

Just like any sporting event or school play, it is im-

portant for students and oth-ers in the SLUH community to show support for people who have invested their heart, time and energy into this project. “It’s a chance to take a break and just walk around the gallery and enjoy the art that is on display” said Pow-ers, who teaches 2D design.

Make sure you stop by the gallery room in the art wing so you can see all the great pieces included in the show created by talented and hardworking SLUH artists.

April 29, 2016Prep News4 NEWS

nolly. “It’s made people more comfortable in their ability and it’s made it easier to find nicely-composed photos.”

Sisyphus isn’t an easy creation, however. After the first steps of contacting the student body and requesting submissions, reading over and editing the works takes a few weeks.

“The editors, as well as Mr. Kovarik and I, always mark up the works we receive to try and make improve-ments,” said Moran. “But, at the end of the day it’s up to to the writer.”

rat with a signed baseball to commemorate the milestone. As mentioned by Athletic Director Chris Muskopf in the awards assembly Thurs-day morning, Nicollerat is the third winningest baseball coach in Missouri, putting him among the greatest of all time in terms of numbers. However, the true measure of a coach’s ability lies in his or her aptitude to make the most of the cards he’s been dealt.

Nicollerat knows base-ball. He takes those cards that he is dealt every year and he uses them in key situa-tions throughout the game. He knows where to position players, what approach to use in every at-bat, and when to make a change.

“There isn’t a better in-game tactician,” said assis-tant coach Tom Zinselmeyer. “He’ll move a guy two steps to the right and the next pitch is hit right at that player.”

In professional sports, coaches are simply judged on their ability to make a team

win rather than their ability to make the best use of the talents on their team. Nicolle-rat, though, has been able to do both, building from the ground up every year as se-niors graduate and new fresh-men come in. He develops those players’ baseball skills, but also turns them into bet-ter men. In short, he has found success both on and off of the field.

“(Nicollerat) insists that baseball is a vehicle for per-sonal growth,” said Zinsel-meyer. “He has redefined a standard. The standard is to win and be successful there, but really the most important part is getting kids to grow personally. If you redefine the standard, you can absolutely go forward in your career.”

Nicollerat claims that his capacity to foster personal re-lationships began to change when he started to have chil-dren and grandchildren. Most notably, he began to recognize the emotions that children have when bad things hap-pen, something that happens

multiple skits and organizing props for many others.

“I think Joe Zoellner de-serves mention,” said Corley. “It’s been several years since I’ve had a student who takes it upon himself to steer the thing forward and make sure stuff gets written and make sure stuff gets produced just without a lot of attention.”

In the humor itself, many teachers take their usual punches this year, including principal John Moran and As-sistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson. Moran is featured in one of Corley’s favorites, “SSN Department Heads Meeting,” a skit that makes fun of the possibly

Despite early scare, 2016 Follies won’t break the unbroken tradition

Sisyphus spring edition out next week

Nicollerat, winningest coach in SLUH historyall the time in sports through cuts, injuries, and losses on a big stage.

“Baseball is really im-portant, I get that, but it’s not really as important as mak-ing sure a player goes home thinking he learned some-thing today,” said Nicollerat.

“You are not judged by wins and losses internally—coach doesn’t do that,” said Zinselmeyer. “He really beats himself up on how he helps kids grow.”

While his wins on the field can be counted on a scoresheet or posted on a plaque, the successes with individual players are much more difficult to track. How-ever, one thing is clear: Nicollerat’s success off the field is an equal accomplish-ment to his baseball-related victories. He has truly im-pacted the lives of players who have had the privilege to play for him.

“Coach teaches us to be better men, how to care for each other, and a good work ethic,” said senior Truman

After all the content has been compiled, the layout of the magazine is the final ob-stacle, which they dedicated last Sunday to, with almost 20 guys working on the layout process.

“The environment on the day we put it together is one of my favorite parts of it all,” said Connolly. “It’s surpris-ingly laid back, and it’s a lot of creative minds in one place.”

These creative minds revel in bringing students’ exemplary work to the entire student body; the 76-page spring issue will be on sale next week.

From the Pn Vault

Staff writer Jack Witthaus, ’12, wrote the article on Nicollerat’s 500th win from the May 31, 2011, edition of PN Volume 75. article | Prep News Volume 75, Issue 31

Stephens. “I think it’s pre-pared me for the rest of my life.”

Nicollerat genuinely cares about what’s going on in his players’ lives. He under-stands that players have lives outside of school and sports, and he acknowledges that.

“He always ends every conversation with ‘tell your parents hello’ or ‘say hello to the family. It’s never ‘you struck out five times,’” said Zinselmeyer.

Nicollerat’s positive coaching style has inspired former players to become coaches themselves. David Drury, ’88, attributes many of his coaching successes at Kirkwood to Nicollerat’s les-sons, citing both his tactful skill and his personal connec-tions with players.

“His emphasis on baser-unning has been passed along to my teams. Kirkwood JV used it tonight to score a run,” said Drury. “Most important-ly, he always treated people with respect.”

Nicollerat has spent the past 30 years attempting to improve the talents of his players and developing his own coaching style. To quote the Grad at Grad, Nicollerat is “open to growth.”

“I’ve been around a lot of coaches in my lifetime. He is one of the few that continues to try to improve every sin-gle year—books, videos, and trips,” said former Athletic Director Dick Wehner.

“I would like to coach as long as it’s fun and as long as I want to keep becoming a bet-ter coach,” said Nicollerat.

Nicollerat has earned his place among the winningest coaches in Missouri history, he has won 22 District Cham-pionships, and has even been recently inducted into the Missouri High School Base-ball Coaches Association (MHSBCA) Hall of Fame. However, Nicollerat accom-plishments shouldn’t over-shadow his other qualities, most notably his personal relationships with players and their families that he has built over the years as well as the growth he has inspired within his players.

“If there was a Hall of Fame for nice guys, he would be on the ballot,” said Wehner. — Nick Gima contributed re-porting.

conflicting views of the differ-ent department heads.

There’s no need to panic that Kesterson avoids his fair share of the ridicule, however, especially in the wake of his recent leg injury in the stu-dent-faculty all star basketball game.

The show only features one video, a departure from the video-heavy Follies last year.

On the musical side, the show features both stu-dents that have done theater at SLUH before along with those who have never seen the green room. One such skit that does both of those is “Kairos/Hooked on a Feel-ing,” a bubbly dance poking

fun at Carl Heumann, S.J., and the semi-cult nature of Kairos and its secrecy.

New members to the Follies staff are campus min-ister Brian Gilmore and cho-ral director Addie Akin, who is new to SLUH this year. Though he has not done Fol-lies in the past, Gilmore ap-proached Corley earlier this year and asked if he could help out with the show.

In its essence, the Class of 2016’s Senior Follies is the same as any other Follies show before theirs: a bunch of inside jokes, a hurry to get scripts and actors together, and an equally playful and weird mockery of the com-munity we all love so dearly.

A Follies dress rehearsal on Thursday night. photo | Brendan Voigt

Senior Luke Brummell’s print of a castle, featured in the spring Sisyphus.

artwork | Luke Brummell

Junior Ian Mulvihill’s watercolor of a car, featured in the spring Sisyphus.

artwork | Ian Mulvihill

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SENIORS: From left to right (top row): Tim Nile, Chris Stahl, Chris Kreienkamp, Ryan Hop-kins, Sam Tettamble. From left to right (bottom row): Matt Nester, Sam Caldwell, Jerry Duggan, Michael Hayes, Sergio Goodwin, and Jack Perryman.

5April 29, 2016 Prep NewsAWARDS

BY Sam Goedeker and Jack Sinay STAFF, CORE STAFF

For the past 12 years, English teacher Barbara Osburg has

inspired SLUH students with the quirky, intellectual, and truthful character at the heart of her classes. Her legacy was formally recognized yesterday when she won the Faculty Appreciation Award, voted on by members of the senior class, at the senior award ceremony.

Osburg was both surprised and grateful after receiving the award, and had a spirit of humility con-cerning the honor.

“The fact that enough seniors felt that I touched them in a great enough way to be honored in this way is really gratifying,” said Os-burg.

Her humility has been a hall-

mark of her classes for years. Se-nior Christian Fredericks, who had her for American Literature, said he has seen her crying during the Examen before because of what she perceived as her own shortcom-

ings. In fact, before she received the award, she was wishing she did more around SLUH.

But although she was surprised, many students felt the recognition was due.

“She is brilliant, and her class-room always showed it,” said junior Joe Fentress, who had her for fresh-man English. “From her interpreta-tions of books to her male anatomy jokes.”

“At first I thought she was a crazy old lady,” said senior Jimmy Reddy, who had her for American Literature. “I then realized she was a crazy old lady, but a crazy old lady with stories and insights worth lis-tening to.”

“She just made learning fun,” said junior Danny Pitts, who had her for freshman English. “She was always so positive and stressed the small things that get taken for grant-ed sometimes.”

Osburg has also been known throughout the school as a woman who isn’t afraid to tell the truth. She hopes that message has resonated with her students as she, herself, has tried to live it out.

“(I believe) speaking the truth is at the heart of a life well lived,” said Osburg.

This award is especially mean-ingful for Osburg, as it is the last year of her long teaching career. Be-fore coming to SLUH, she taught at a couple of different schools for over 32 years.

In addition to receiving the award, she will speak at Gradua-tion on May 29 at the Peabody Op-era House. Although she is not sure what her remarks will be, she joked about them including the villain “Dingo Dog” from the children’s book Cars and Trucks and Things that Go, which she often likes to ref-erence in class.

“It will be a blur of trying to find something coherent and enter-taining and heartfelt to say to such a wonderful, wonderful group of young men,” said Osburg.

Osburg wins Faculty Appreciation Award

English teacher Barbara Osburg yesterday after learning about the award. photo | Gaurav Nigam

BY Liam ConnollySTAFF

Father Hagan Award:This award was created in mem-ory of Father Marty Hagan, S.J. who devoted his time at Saint Louis U. High to developing a more personal relationship with the underclassmen. He helped fostered a sense of brotherhood and unity in the pool hall, and made students feel welcomed by taking the time to learn their names and a little bit about them. The award named in his honor recognizes leadership in the freshman and sophomore year, the love of this school, generosity in giving of self, joy in coming to school every day and just being glad to be here. This year’s Father Hagan Award recipients are freshman Paul Gillam and sophomore Jack McGrail.

United States Presidential Scholars Program: This program was established in 1964, by Executive Order of the President, to recognize and honor some of our Nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. This year, senior Lucas Kammerer has been recognized as a candidate in this program.

Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award: This award is given to a student who demonstrates the quali-ties of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. This year’s recipient of the award is Andrew Murphy.

Fienup Math Award: In memory of W. F. J. Fienup, this award is given annually by the mathematics department to the outstanding student in mathematics in the graduat-ing class. This year’s Fienup award winner is Michael Ko-manetsky.

Raterman Award: This award is given annually in honor of James Raterman, a great teacher and beloved col-league, to an exemplary senior who reads attentively, speaks from the heart, writes with con-viction, and devotes himself to learning. This year’s recipient of the Raterman Award is Lucas Kammerer.

F. Joseph Schulte Dramatics Awards: This award is given annually to a senior or seniors for outstand-ing work in the dramatic arts. This year’s Schulte Awards are given to Evan Brende, Aiden Evans, and Brandon Smith.

McConaghy Award: Dr. Mary Lee McConaghy has taught Latin and Greek at SLUH since 1979. Everyday in her time here, she has displayed the invaluable qualities of integrity, dedication, and enthusiasm. To honor her, this award is given to a senior who exemplifies these qualities at St. Louis University High. This year’s recipient of the McConaghy Award is Liam Cler.

William George Prize for Po-etry: This prize is named for English

teacher Bill George, original moderator of and long-time contributor to Sisyphus, whose poems moved the SLUH com-munity with their wit, their honesty, and their generous good will—is given annually to recognize excellence in student poetry. This year’s winner, as determined in a poetry contest judged by poet Jason Sommer, is Michael Wiley.

Lonigro Award:Dr. Andrew Lonigro was a phy-sician, scientist and professor at St. Louis University Medical School for nearly 40 years. To honor his memory, this award was created by his family and classmates to be presented to the graduating senior who has most distinguished himself in the study of science at St. Louis University High. The recipient of this year’s Lonigro Award is Michael Hayes.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Model of Justice Award: This award recognizes a se-nior who has demonstrated through his attitude and his work, a commitment to serving humanity in the broader com-munity. This student has made justice a central part of his life and has committed himself “to the noble struggle for equal rights.” The 2016 Model of Jus-tice Award winner is Brendan Underwood.

Principal’s Leadership Awards: This award is given annually to seniors who in the opinion of the administration have dem-

onstrated the ability to combine Academic Excellence and Ex-emplary Leadership in School and Community Activities: This year, the Principal’s Leadership Awards recipients are Ryan Hopkins, Ian Hurford, Tim Nile, and Sam Tettamble.

Archbishop May Service Award:The Archbishop May Service Award is given to a senior in each of the Catholic High Schools in the Archdiocese who, in the opinion of the Cam-pus Ministry Department and the Administration is an out-standing example of rendering Christian Service within his community and school. This year’s recipient is Jerome Dug-gan.

Jack Krings, Jr. AwardThe Jack Krings, Jr. Award for Outstanding Service to Others recognizes a senior who has distinguished himself in minis-try to the poor and underprivi-leged in the spirit of justice and faith through his activities in St. Louis University High School’s community service program. The 2016 Jack Krings Awards winner is Sam Caldwell.

Dunn-Martel Award: This award was established in 1988 to honor Coaches Ebbie Dunn and Paul Martel’s long and successful tenure as soccer and football coaches at St. Louis University High School. “Theschool will present this award annually to the senior who maintains the high level of scholarship as well as the dis-cipline and commitment of athletic participation that earn for him selection as “Scholar-Athlete of St. Louis University High School.” This year’s recipi-ent of the Dunn-Martel Award is Chris Kreienkamp.

Hinck- Hereford Award:This award is named for the two alumni who gave their lives in the service of their country dur-ing World War II. The Hinck-Hereford Award is conferred on the senior who has excelled in leadership, scholarship and athletics and who, in the opin-ion of the senior class is judged most deserving of this award. Selected by his classmates as the recipient of the 2016 Hinck-Hereford Award is Matt Nester.

Jesuit Schools Network Award:This award is given for the 27th

year to a student in each of the fifty-nine Jesuit High Schools in the United States. The JSN is presented to the member/or members of the graduating class who best resembles this ideal: “A well-rounded person who is intellectually competent, open to growth, religious, loving and committed to doing justice in generous service to the people of God.” This year’s winner is Sergio Goodwin. Goodwin will be representing the class of 2016 as student speaker at the Gradu-ation Dinner.

Mac Boland Award: The Mac Boland Award was established by members of the class of 1958 to honor and cel-ebrate the life of their outstand-ing classmate, William McCrea-ry Boland. The recipient of this annual award, chosen by the faculty, is the senior who best reflects Mac Boland’s personal qualities which his classmates summarized as follows: “The otherwise unheralded senior, who through his dedication and determination has most influ-enced his fellow students to-ward more united participation in the spirit which is St. Louis University High School.” Each year the winner’s name is add-ed to the plaque which hangs in the center corridor of the school. The Mac Boland Award winner from the class of 2016 is Chris Stahl. Stahl will be one of the two student speakers at the Graduation Ceremony.

Ed Hawk Memorial Award: The Ed Hawk award was estab-lished by members of the class of 1971 in memory of their classmate, whose life was taken after his junior year at SLUH. The fact that he was elected as an officer of the student coun-cil for his senior year is an in-dication of his standing among his classmates. Through their efforts, an annual award was established to recognize the se-nior who: “through his love and dedication to St. Louis Univer-sity High School, and through his example of working and giving, was most able to influ-ence his class toward success by cooperation and unity.” The re-cipient, chosen by members of the Senior class of 2016 isJack Perryman. Perryman will also be speaking at the Gradua-tion Ceremony.

—Descriptions compiled by Mrs. Rita Mulligan.

Cornell University Book Award:

Blake Johnson

Dartmouth Book Award:

Sam Chechik

Harvard Book Award:

Matthew Smith

Princeton Book Award:

Lancer Li

Rockhurst Univer-sity Book Award:

Salvatore Vitellaro

Saint Anselm College Book Award:

Henry Byrne

St. Michael’s College Book Award:

Joe Laughlin

Washington College Aca-demic Achievement Award:

Robert Schaefer

University of Chicago Book Award:

Edward Gartner

St. Lawrence University Book Award:

Tim Moritz

Washington College Lead-ership and Community Ser-

vice Award:

Joseph Reznikov

Editor’s note: The Junior Book Awards are given to juniors who exemplify the qualities of academic achievement, good character, extracurricular involvement, community ser-vice, leadership, social justice, diversity, and other traits. See the full descriptions on the Prep News website, sluh.org/

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Issue 28

BY Jake Lepak REPORTER

The St. Louis U. High track team took a select few to

compete in the Kansas Relays last Friday and Saturday in Lawrence, Kan. at the Uni-versity of Kansas’s Track Sta-dium.

Despite expectations the weekend was filled with many frustrating mental errors and sub-par performances.

On Friday, the only SLUH athletes competing were senior triple jumper Sergio Goodwin, and the 4x1600-meter relay featuring freshman Patrick Hetlage, ju-nior Joe Laughlin, and seniors Joe Butler and Jake Lepak. On the sprints side, junior sprinters Roman Lipinski and Jayson Ashford ran in the 400-meter prelims.

Goodwin kicked off SLUH’s quest for good com-petition with the triple jump. However, his jumps 40-4, 40-6, and 40-2.75 were roughly four feet behind his PR of 44-10.

After the field event, the 4x1600 relay squad hoped for a little more success. Butler was the leadoff-leg for this relay, and put himself around fourth place for the first half mile. He faded near the end, but was still able to run a 4:40 mile split. That, combined with Laughlin’s 4:45, Het-lage’s 4:51, and Lepak’s 4:41, resulted in a 12th place finish with a total time of 18:58. St. Thomas Aquinas from Kansas won with an 18:00.

Ashford and Lipin-ski looked to make a strong showing in a loaded 400. Ash-ford was to race in the first heat while Lipinski was to go in the second heat.

Before the first heat went off, disaster struck as Ashford was disqualified for a false start. Lipinski ran his 400 in 51.5 seconds.

Since this was his sec-ond time false starting in two weeks, Ashford worked with head coach Joe Porter on his block starts for 20 minutes that night, because he was to lead off the 4x200 meter relay.

SLUH’s 4x200 relay was the first of the three races to compete on the second day. Ashford, who was now leading off, was much more composed in the blocks. He exploded out of the blocks to hand off the baton in first place. Senior superstars David and Daniel Jackson also had very good legs, and were able to hand off the baton to senior Robert Caldwell, who was in the top three for his heat. The relay finished off with a re-spectable 1:32.42.

Senior captain Dustan Davidson took seventh over-

BY Matt GodarSTAFF

The St. Louis U. High Lax-bills pulled off a rugged

8-7 win against league and Jesuit rival De Smet in the an-nual Fr. Marco Cup this past Saturday. The victory com-pleted SLUH’s sweep of the Spartans, as both the JV and freshman teams defeated De Smet earlier in the day.

This is the Bills’ second consecutive year winning the tournament. Last year, SLUH won 7-6.

The cup, in its 12th year, is played annually between the two schools in honor of the former De Smet and current SLUH teacher and preacher. Along with games between the varsity, JV, and freshman squads, food and shirts are sold with proceeds going to different charities.

“It’s always kind of a mixed blessing, because I was at De Smet for 12 years,” said Fr. Marco. “But these are the boys I teach, the ones I know, so I think I have to favor the home team.”

“The atmosphere is al-ways pretty crazy, there’s al-ways a bunch of people there,” said senior attackman Patrick Durnien.

The game itself started well for well for the SLUH.

Less than two minutes into the game, senior midfielder Michael Hall ripped a shot high into the net to score the first goal of the game.

The rest of the quarter was fairly uneventful as the two teams slugged it out for ten minutes without either team scoring a goal. The first quarter ended with the Bills on top, 1-0.

“I think we underesti-mated them a little bit; I know I did,” said senior goalie Jack Perryman. “I definitely didn’t expect them to come out and play with us like that.”

In the second quarter, the Bills once again came out ready to go, as senior mid-fielder Pat Flood scored on a bounce shot only one minute into the quarter. However, De Smet quickly answered with a goal just two minutes later. But the Bills also answered, as sophomore attack Pete O’Malley scored on a wrap-around goal just 30 seconds later.

SLUH ended the first half on top, 3-2.

“It’s a game that a lot of emotion is put into. It’s kind of a team that we hate, and they hate us,” said Durnien.

The game took on an-other level of intensity in the third quarter, with goals from

both teams throughout. The quarter opened with the Bills extending their lead off of a goal from junior midfield Nolan Corker yards from the crease, and another goal from Hall.

“We kind of wanted to set the tone for the second half, and we came out pretty hot,” said Corker.

But De Smet was not disparaged, and scored two goals in two minutes to return SLUH’s lead to just one goal. This was the theme of much of the game. After their first quarter goal, SLUH could not score a goal without it being

soon answered by De Smet.This cycle repeated it-

self twice more in the rest of the third quarter, as another Corker goal—off of an assist from senior midfielder Dave Stolz—and Pat Howley’s low to high goal were balanced by De Smet goals.

“It was definitely kind of back and forth, but I never really felt like we were out of control,” said Corker.

The final quarter began almost inversely compared to the rest of the game, as the Spartans tied the game just 44 seconds in.

However, the dynamic

BY Sam RudderREPORTER

With three more wins over De Smet, (44-

14), Priory (45-0), and CBC (54-5), the St. Louis U. High Rugby team (11-3) is eagerly awaiting the State Tourna-ment.

The Ruggerbills traveled to De Smet last Thursday to take on the Spartans in a bat-tle of the Jesuits.

With a number of subs getting starts, the Bills started the game a little slow, but a try from senior Jack Cantwell put the Bills up 17-14 early in the

first half. The try was a turn-ing point, as the squad went on to dominate the game in a 44-14 victory that featured notable performances from both sophomore Buck Cheva-lier and senior Tom Graf.

“We started off really solid with an early score then let up a little but after then we were firing and everything was clicking,” said Chevalier. “The boys are buzzing now.”

Against the Priory Reb-els, the Bills suffered from an excess of penalties, but were eventually able to compose themselves and get back to playing rugby. A notable play

came from the junior Mike Ruggeri, who claimed the ball around midfield and from that point he sprinted to the try zone for a try, his second of the day.

“I took off. No one was going to stop me,” said Rug-gieri.

Junior Henry Herzberg added to the score on two dif-ferent tries from pounding the ball up the gut.

The game ended in the Bills’ favor, 45-0.

On their Senior Night, the Jr. Bills entered the game excited and ready to play MCC rival CBC. After an in-

troduction of all the seniors on the team, the match began.

Although leading 22-5 at half, the Bills knew their play needed to improve. Senior John Zetzman added to the Jr. Bills’ score with two different tries early in the second half.

“We had started pull-ing away and I knew that just a couple more tries and we would be able to coast. CBC had been praising themselves during the season so it was nice to prove who the real leaders of the MCC were,” said Zetzman.

Nine different players recorded tries on the way to a

54-5 victory over the Cadets. The team heads into the

State Tournament with one goal: to win.

“This year has been the most successful regular sea-son yet,” said coach Chris Keeven. “We are 11-3 and un-defeated in non-tournament matches.”

The State Tournament is the weekend of May 6-8 and will be played in Jefferson City, where SLUH will look to get revenge against the KC Blues from Kansas City, who defeated them in the champi-onship last year.

held true, and SLUH an-swered.

Corker, running right of the crease, scored the go-ahead goal a little over a min-ute later.

In the final 10 minutes of the game, both teams had multiple opportunities, but neither team scored again. The Laxbills held on, tarnish-ing De Smet’s undefeated re-cord and vaulting into second place in the league standings.

“It really just shows that every team in conference comes ready to play; that we have to be ready,” said Perry-man.

Looking to State, Rugby pounds on De Smet, Priory, CBC Track & Field falls short in Kansas

Team regroups at

Vianney

Lacrosse finds success against De Smet in Marco Cup

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Junior Mike Ruggeri in last Thursday’s game against Priory. photo | Brendan Voigt

photo | Brendan VoigtJunior Jerome Howe IV in Thursday’s game against CBC.

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all in the 1600 and fifth in his heat with a 4:24.04. The first lap of the four lap race was very slow, as the leader took it out in 69 seconds. Then, the top group immediately picked up the pace 100 meters into the second lap and Davidson wasn’t able to hold on and counter the move.

The 4x800 was led off by Lipinski, who put the team in good position after his leg. He split a 2:03 and handed off the baton to junior William Kelly in about 6th place. Kelly and sophomore Paul Burka both split around a 2:06 and Butler ended the race with a 2:08. The relay finished in 16th overall and was 10th in its heat with an 8:25.17, nearly 10

BY Billy Balossi and Jack CaseySTAFF

In the midst of a crucial run of games, the Frisbills con-

ceded a hard fought match to Priory, 15-12. The team cur-rently holds a record of 2-6, though several games could have swung in its favor if the team had developed a bit more composure in the final third.

Priory proved to be a difficult force all throughout the game, continually scoring on quick counterattacks. This fast pace was too much for the SLUH team to deal with, but they managed to keep the score tight in the first half.

“Priory is a great team; they have a lot of seniors and a lot of athleticism,” said ju-nior Carson Berry. “I think we played great to just be in it with them.”

The first half of the game shifted back and forth with the deficit never exceeding two points. Carson played strong defense with many blocks and gathered multiple goals in SLUH’s favor, includ-ing one from long range, as-sisted by captain Joe Lux (Jr.). Junior Drew Wagner was also influential in the half with a couple diving catches that raised both the score and the team’s spirits.

The first half ended with a tight 8-7 Priory lead. After a strategy meeting between first-year coach Mark Bradley and the Frisbills, the second half began.

The team went with a zone defense for the half be-cause of its lack of experience; it worked well until the team lost energy and Priory ate up

the unguarded gaps with deep throws on breakaways. Priory scored five unanswered goals with this strategy, leaving SLUH in the dust. When they had time to set up and stall the Priory breakaways, SLUH’s defense produced turnovers throughout the match, but the offense lost its momentum late in the game and couldn’t capitalize on its final passes towards the goal.

“We got enough turn-overs to win the game,” said Bradley. “There were just three or four passes that we couldn’t complete in the final third.”

The team played two oth-er games earlier last week.

On April 17, the Frisbills lost to Eureka, 13-7. Though the score did not reflect it, the team put up a competitive game, especially considering they had only six players—seven is a full team—com-pared to Eureka’s 20.

“It was a totally winnable

seconds slower than the previ-ous race at Kirkwood.

While the meet at Kansas did not go exactly as planned, the team is still hopeful mov-ing forward as the MCC meet looms around the corner. “We just need to move on and not let one weekend determine the future of our season,” said Davidson. “We have the po-tential to be a great team, we just need to focus and work harder, then we will see results at the end of the season.”

This week is certainly very stressful for the team. There will be two big meets this week and Conference is next Thursday.

There was another loss for the track team this week as Porter had appendicitis.

“Not having Porter is a rough blow since our perfor-mance at Kansas was sub-par” said Lipinski. “But Coach Fla-nagan is managing our work-outs well. I’m trying to step up to help encourage the team to work harder so we can come back and do well this weekend at the Clayton invitational.”

Odds are that Porter will be out for most of the week, so assistant coaches Tom Fla-nagan and Lindsey Ehret have been helping take over while Porter recovers.

“Porter’s shoes are quite the shoes to fill,” said Ehret. “I have to do a lot more math than I was hoping to do.”

The track team sent a mix of the varsity and sec-ond string varsity to Vianney

to compete in the Jim Ferrell Relays. While the team didn’t keep track of the standings, this was more of a workout for a lot of guys to gear up and get ready for Conference next week.

On the sprint side, some of the highlights of the meet included senior Daniel Isom winning the 100 in a time of 11.3 seconds. He also won the 110 hurdles handily in a time of 15.9 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 43.7 seconds.

The 4x100 relay of Daniel Jackson, Caldwell, Isom, and senior Thomas Caputa fin-ished with a time of 45.77. The 4x200 meter relay, composed of the Jacksons, Caldwell, and Caputa finished in 1:34.69.

The Distance side of

game; we were just missing too many players,” said Brad-ley.

This lack of players has become a common trend for a team that has struggled to replace the 30 upperclassmen who graduated over the last two years. Consequently, the team spent more time learn-ing the basics of the game at the beginning of the season.

In their biggest game of the regular season to date, the Frisbills faced up against defending state champions De Smet on April 20 and lost, 15-0.

“Everyone came out ready to play. At the end it didn’t go well for us, but we moved the disk around well,” said junior Chris Thornberry.

However, when put into perspective—De Smet has won the state title for the last three years and has a wealth of talent and experience—the loss is less severe.

“They’re a program that

BY Jake SwyersREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High vol-leyball team took first

place in the Parkway Central Tournament this year, an im-provement from last year’s first round loss.

The team rolled its first two opponent’s on Friday, April 15—Parkway Central and Pattonville—in two sets each. The next morning, the Jr. Bills beat Lindbergh, state runner-up Lafayette, and De Smet to take home the cham-pionship trophy. Both Lafay-ette and De Smet were tough opponents and are known as top teams in the area, yet SLUH beat Lafayette in three sets and De Smet in two.

Coach Jeff Cheak had a lot of praise for the team after the wins.

“I freaking loved our passing, especially in that La-fayette game. That was the best passing I have seen this year, and it might have even been better than last year’s state team’s,” said Cheak.

Junior Leo Henken also praised the team’s ability stay consistent.

“We need that ability to help us win State—the ability to recognize what we need to do and to respond to what we see consistently,” said Henken.

The only other team on SLUH’s radar to solidify its spot as the top Missouri boys’ team was Vianney, whom they beat the following Thursday.

The next day, the Vol-leybills rolled O’Fallon in two sets, 25-14, 25-13. Sophomore Jack McGrail got his first kill in a varsity game.

This past week, the only game on the schedule was Parkway Central. Starting right side Henken sat out to rest for the upcoming Lafay-ette tournament, but the team easily handled Central in two sets.

Cheak was pleased with the win but emphasized the importance of the practices.

“We only have a few prac-tices left and this last stretch will be a grind, so we need to make sure we are getting bet-ter and staying focused. The Lafayettes and the Vianneys and the De Smets are working hard, so we must work hard-er,” Cheak said.

Leo Henken echoed Cheak’s advice with a similar statement.

“The team needs to focus on our energy and resilience. We need to keep getting bet-ter and improving all the way to the last point of the season,” said Henken.

The team has its eyes fixed on hoisting up another State Trophy, especially be-cause of all these quality wins against great teams. But first, the Jr. Bills need to win Dis-tricts to gain a good seed. Districts are scheduled for the morning after Senior Prom, May 14.

Cheak also thinks the team has a good chance for a perfect State run and back to back title.

“When we play our best, I’m not sure any current or maybe even past Missouri high school team could beat us,” said Cheak.

Ultimate heads into last chance for State Tourney Bump, set, spike: Volleyball tops rival Vianney

Track & Field doesn’t track results at Vianney(continued from page 6)

Water Polo4/28SLUH 19Marquette 3Key stats: Senior Mark Franz had 8 goals and senior Dan Walsh had 4 assists.Key note: This was the first game of the Lindbergh In-vite, for which SLUH will split up into two teams, SLUH A and SLUH B. This game was played by SLUH A.

Golf4/23Indiana Midwest Tourna-ment—Indianapolis, Ind.The Jr. Bills placed first in the tournament out of 15 teams with a total score of 312, edg-ing Homestead High School by a stroke. Sophomore Jack Wachter led the SLUH group with a 2-over par 74, placing him third individually out of 96 golfers.

Other team members:Max Twardowski 78Michael Rackers 80

Sam Bricker 80Louie Perotti 85

Individual Competitors:Scott Berger 81Jack Fitzpatrick 82Andrew St.John 93

4/25CBC 228SLUH 233Jack Wachter 36, Sam Bricker 38, Max Twardowski 38

4/28De Smet 3SLUH 5 SLUH defeated De Smet in

match play format to claim the 2016 Jesuit Cup. Fitzpatrick 33, Wachter 34, St. John 35, Perotti 36, Bricker 36, Berger 36, Twardowski 36, Rackers 36

Baseball4/27SLUH 3CBC 2Key stat: Junior Nick Peccola had all of the team’s RBIs and junior Westen Baker pitched a complete game.

4/28SLUH 5Vianney 4Key stat: Luke Thibodeau hit a two-run home run and John Brinkman pitched a complete game.

Tennis4/22SLUH 4Parkway South 5Key quote: “It was really close, it came down to the last match,” said junior Sam Bott. Key stat: Juniors Ben and Sam Bott won doubles 8-4.

4/27SLUH 5Parkway West 4Key quote: “We pulled out the win today,” said Sam Bott. “We’re gaining confidence heading into MCC play this weekend.”

Next match: 4/30, in the MCC Tournament.

—Matthew Book, Andrew Modder, Nick Gima, and Jack Waters contributed reporting.

the meet had its fair share of highlights. Brad Gale ran the 800 with a time of 2:10, Lepak took second in the 2-mile with a time of 10:12, while Kelly ran it in 10:30. In the mile, sophomore Matt Gunn ran 5:02, while Burka had a huge race and won his heat with a time of 4:45.

The field events also had a good day of competition as David Jackson and sopho-more Daniel McMurran both cleared 6-2 in the high jump.

“It felt good to meet my goal of under 4:47,” said Burka. “But I think I could’ve pushed myself more in the third lap, which was my slow-est. However, I am still really happy that I ran a PR. I am go-

ing to push myself a little more in hard workouts, run more mileage on easy days, and stretch longer to minimize the stress on my muscles.”

The Jr. Bills compete at the loaded Clayton Invitation-al tomorrow. This will surely be the toughest meet the team will be in until Sectionals and State. Some of the best racers in the state will be at this meet as athletes and teams race for one more time before all of the different Conference meets. This will be the Jr. Bills’ last competition before Confer-ence and everybody is excited to compete.

has been set up for the last ten years with an influx of a lot of athletes,” said Berry. “Al-though we lost badly, it was a good learning experience. We’re coming for them next year.”

The loss was comparable to last year’s state final, where SLUH lost 15-1 to De Smet. The Spartans exemplify an elite level of play when com-pared to the rest of the teams in Missouri.

“We’re a young team, said Bradley. “It’s a total rebuilding year … but I see a lot of poten-tial in this squad.”

Eight players also trav-eled to play in a tournament last weekend in Joliet, Ill. with six other players from Jeffer-sonville, Ind. The makeshift team played seven games in the B division, finishing with a 4-3 record and coming in second in a pool of 16 teams.

The tournament served as much-needed experience for some of the younger play-ers.

According to Bradley, each of the eight players im-proved dramatically over the course of the tournament, but he singled out sophomores Michael Esson and Adam Hanson because of their im-pressive performances.

The team’s next game is against Eureka on Sunday, where a win will be necessary to assure their spot in the State Tournament.

“At the beginning we had a lot of new kids come out but everyone has advanced a lot over the season and I think we are going to play well,” said Thornberry.

photo | Billy BalossiJunior Chris Thornberry (right) talks with his coach.

Varsity Briefs

Prep News8 April 29, 2016

Sunday, May 1C Lacrosse vs. CBC @ C Lacrosse Tournament

12:00pm V Lacrosse vs. Rockhurst4:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Rockwood Summit7:00pm Senior Follies8:00pm V Inline Hockey vs. Rockwood Summit

Friday, April 29AP Junior Ring Liturgical Music Rehearsal Snack—Bosco Sticks

Lunch Special—Chinese Pizza Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger

C Lacrosse vs. CBC @ C Lacrosse Tournament4:00pm JV Water Polo vs. Parkway North @ Ladue JV Tournament4:30pm C Volleyball vs. CBC @ SLUH4:30pm JV Volleyball vs. CBC @ SLUH5:30pm V Volleyball vs. CBC @ SLUH6:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Fort Zumwalt South7:30pm Freshman Class Dance7:40pm V Water Polo vs. Parkway South @ Lindbergh Invitational

Regular Schedule

Monday, May 2Faculty Day – No ClassesAP Chem, Environmental Science, and Psych Tests1:00pm Liturgical Music Rehearsal4:00pm C Track @ Vianney C Invitational4:15pm C Volleyball vs. Parkway West4:15pm JV Volleyball vs. Parkway West5:15pm V Volleyball vs. Parkway West

No Classes

Tuesday, May 3AP Computer Science, Spanish, and Physics I Tests

AP Junior Class Meeting Liturgical Music Rehearsal Snack—Mac ‘n Cheese Bites

Lunch Special—Taco Bar Vegetarian—Olive Oil Pasta

4:00pm JV/C Track vs. De Smet/CBC/Marquette4:15pm V Baseball vs. De Smet4:15pm V Tennis vs. Priory4:15pm JV Tennis vs. Priory4:30pm C Baseball vs. Eureka5:00pm C Volleyball vs. Francis Howell Central5:00pm JV Volleyball vs. Francis Howell Central6:00pm V Volleyball vs. Francis Howell Central7:00pm V Baseball vs. De Smet @ SLUH7:00pm Concert Band

Regular Schedule

Wednesday, May 4AP English Lit and Physics II Tests

AP Junior Ring Liturgical Music Rehearsal Snack—Bosco Sticks

Lunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Strips Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger

9:00am V Golf @ District Tournament4:00pm JV Tennis vs. Clayton4:00pm V Tennis vs. Clayton4:15pm C Baseball vs. Parkway West4:30pm V Baseball vs. Chaminade4:30pm V Lacrosse vs. Marquette4:30pm B Baseball vs. Chaminade6:00pm JV Lacrosse vs. Marquette7:00pm Jazz Band

Mass Schedule

Thursday, May 5AP AB Calculus and BC Calculus Tests

AP Snack—Chicken Bites

Lunch Special—Domino’s Pizza Vegetarian—Sweet Potatoes

4:00pm V/JC Track @ MCC Championships4:00pm JV Volleyball vs. Chaminade4:15pm C Baseball vs. Parkway South5:00pm NIE Fourth Quarter Happy Hour5:00pm V Volleyball vs. Chaminade

Regular Schedule

CHAMPAIGN, OHIO

calendar | Liam Connolly

Saturday, April 30C Lacrosse vs. CBC @ C Lacrosse TournamentV Volleyball @ Lafayette TournamentV Water Polo @ Lindbergh InvitationalV Tennis @ MCC Tournament8:50am JV Water Polo vs. Oakville @ Ladue JV Tournament12:10pm JV Water Polo vs. Lafayette @ Ladue JV Tournament4:00pm V Lacrosse vs. Olathe (KS)6:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Fort Zumwalt North 7:00pm Senior Follies8:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Lindbergh

Calendar

Friday, May 6AP U.S. History and European History TestsJunior Ring

V Rugby @ Jefferson City State TournamentJV Water Polo @ JV Championship TournamentV Water Polo @ V Championship Tournament

1:30pm C Baseball vs. Vianney4:15pm B Baseball vs. Granite City5:00pm C Baseball vs. Chaminade @ SLUH10:00pm JV/C Inline Hockey vs. Fort Zumwalt West

Half Day Schedule

Nefarious emails sent to students and teachers from multiple ac-counts Last week, multiple fraudulent emails were sent out through the ac-counts of students and staff. Some of these emails asked for the receiv-er to log into a ‘Dropbox’ account, but the link did not lead to Drop-box. “The perpetrators made a form that would capture your username and password. Then they could use that username and password to try to login to things such as email or banking accounts,” said Director of Information and Technology Jona-than Dickmann. About ten SLUH students and staff have reported signing in to a phishing site by ac-cident and Dickmann believes that there could be more people. “If you believe that your account has been compromised, you must change your username and password. You have to be cautious because some people will try to trick you,” said Dickmann.

World Religion classes tour local sites Seniors in the World Religions classes—taught by theology teach-ers Rob Garavaglia and Danielle Harrison—went to the Islamic Foundation of St. Louis from 9:00 to 10:30 followed by the Hindu Temple of St. Louis from 10:30 until 12:00. Upon entering the prayer space of the Mosque, students in Garavaglia’s first period took notice of the chan-deliers and the Arabic inscriptions up above them and thought they were rather beautiful. Students also admired the passion of the speakers they listened to at both the Mosque and Hindu Temple. “The speak-ers reflected the religion they were speaking about,” said Harrison. “The speaker at the Mosque was more structured and the speaker and the Temple was more go with the flow.”

Alumni donates new street lights for Upper Field Alumni Field has been a little brighter this week thanks to some new ornamental lights donated by alumnus Les Hohl. President of City Lighting Products Company, Hohl approached Director of Facilities Joe Rankin and offered to donate as many lights as SLUH wanted. Rankin decided to accept seven lights, which Hohl had delivered to SLUH. Once they arrived they were painted the glossy black you see to-day and laid down on a new con-crete foundation and pedestal.

Schulte spends stint in hospitalFine Arts teacher Joe Schulte suf-fered from congestive heart failure while on the St. Louis U. High cam-pus Monday morning. Schulte was accompanied by Assistant Princi-pal for Mission Jim Linhares in an ambulance that took him from the Danis Lobby to St. Mary’s Hospital. Schulte is in stable condition and is expected to return home from the hospital today. When he will return to SLUH is unknown at this point.

Seniors organize week of comedy, food, gamesDesignated as the last full week of school for seniors, this year’s Se-nior Week took place from April 25 to 29. STUCO planned for a week full of senior-specific activi-ties, but ran into a few scheduling conflicts. Persevering, STUCO re-scheduled events and kicked off the week with a student-run stand-up comedy show on Tuesday, featur-

ing such comics as Lucas Kammerer and Kevin Strader. On Wednes-day, food trucks from Cha Cha Chow, Holy Crepe!, and Gioia’s Deli stopped by during activity period for seniors to enjoy. Tomorrow is bubble soccer, a highly-anticipated sport that has already been re-scheduled once. STUCO originally had planned for an “SNL hybrid show” from Gadfly to debut on Fri-day morning, but the group had to move bubble soccer from Monday to Friday, so the Gadfly talk show is postponed until further notice.

Chinese Talent Show Last Saturday, several students attended the Happy Chinese Com-petition at Webster University. The Happy Chinese Competition is a Midwest regional competition for   high school students studying Chinese. Senior Andrew Groesch and freshman Jimmy Wolfe per-formed a song at the event and took first place for the talent category. Leonard Kim and John Reiss also sang at the event and came in sec-ond for the talent category. Fresh-man Alfie Arun delivered a speech and won second in the speech and language category. Matthew LaFa-ver, performing the chinese yoyo, received honorable mention. Chris-tian Augsburger, Thomas Zawaiski, Delton Utsey, and Connor Worley also participated in the competition.

NHS holds annual induction cer-emony last night Last night, the National Hon-

Around the Hallways

ors Society inducted its new mem-bers for the 2016-2017 school year.The ceremonies were held in the Si Commons, and began with a speech by   English teacher and freshman class moderator Tim Curdt. Then, each inductee’s name was read along with a short paragraph of what each inductee is involved in. After all names were read, last year’s officers were recognized for their dedication to NHS and the new officers were initiated into their positions. The positions are: Joe Reznikov-Presi-dent; Joe Laughlin-Vice President; Blake Johnson-Secretary; Lancer Li-Member at Large; Jake Hennes-Head of Service; John Burke-Head of Marketing; and Nick Parisi-Head of Technology. English teacher and NHS co-moderator Chuck Hussung ended the night with a motivational speech in which he encouraged stu-dents to be active participants in the classroom. For a complete list of all inducted members, please check our website, student.sluh.org/prepnews.

—Written by Nick Messina, Connor FitzGerald, Jake Hennes, Matthew Book, Craig Grzechowiak, Jack Sch-weizer, Joseph Reznikov.

photo | Brendan VoigtHussung with sophomore Tom Mun-sell at the induction ceremony.

Night beatVarsity golf overcomes De Smet in Jesuit Cup

photo | Mr. Scott Gilbertphoto | Brendan Voigt

The varsity golf team after their win. Junior Michael Rackers after hitting a putt during the match.

The varsity golf team competed against De Smet yesterday in the Jesuit Cup. The Cup was match-play format and SLUH finished on top by a score of 5-3.

Lacrosse falls to CBC

photo | Brendan VoigtSome of the seniors during the Senior Night ceremony before the game.

The St. Louis U. High lacrosse team lost to CBC 7-5 on Senior Night. Though the Bills never led the Cadets and at one point were down by three goals, they managed to cut the deficit to just one goal with two minutes remaining in the game. However, a couple of well-played CBC defensive possessions and a CBC goal with 18 seconds left cut the comeback short.